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IT was not until 1886 that, at the solicita- 

 tion of Professor George Lincoln Goodale, 

 the director of the Botanic Garden of Har- 

 vard University, they consented to resume 

 the modelling of flowering plants in glass ; 

 and then it was only with the greatest dif- 

 ficulty that he secured their services, for at 

 that time their entire attention was still 



fiven to the satisfactory and profitable pro- 

 uction of their models of marine animals. 

 Professor Goodale has himself given an 

 account of this first momentous interview 

 with the artists. 1 He had long before then 

 been considering in what material plants 

 and their magnified parts could be ren- 

 dered permanent without being either con- 

 ventionalized or exaggerated. 



" This important question," he says, 

 "was happily answered one day, when, 

 with this burden on my mind, I examined 



1 This account and many other interesting details 

 are contained in the article on " The Blaschka Glass 

 Flower Collection " in the Harvard Graduates' Mag- 

 azine for July, 1893. 



